A CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY.
ere THE EDITOR 01 THE " SPECTATOR."' you allow an Irish Protestant to thank you most heartily for your article in the Spectatr». of December 21st on the above subject, and to make a few remarks upon it While thoroughly agreeing with all you say as to the ex- pediency of granting a charter to such a University, might I yet venture to suggest the importance of strengthening your appeal to the Government and to Unionists in general by dwelling on the justice, as distinguished from the ex- pediency, of such a course ? Those who are opposed to the grant of a charter plead that justice is done to Roman Catholics and Protestants alike by the opening of Dublin University, with scholarships, fellowships, and almost all the professorships, to all, irrespective of creed, and that if we Protestants are content with this, so ought our Roman Catholic fellow, countrymen to be. But the two cases are not parallel. Few, if any, Protestants, I imagine, feel any conscientious objection to send their sons to a mixed University, but a very large number of Roman Catholies do feel such an objection. As things are at present, these people have no University authorised to confer degrees, to which they can conscientiously send their sons. This is an injustice. Let us hope that it may be speedily removed by a Govern- ment which is so truly the friend of Ireland.—I am, Sir, &c. H. STUART VERSCHOYLE. Villa S. PafrEzio, S. Remo, December 23rd.
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